The three police chief constables caught in the Plebgate row have announced they will be all attending the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) next Wednesday (23 October).

A statement offering the 'updated position from Warwickshire, West Mercia and West Midlands Police' added that the commissioners welcomed the opportunity to discuss this case in detail before the committee.

The statement said: "We fully appreciate the intense public interest in this case and wish to ensure openness and transparency in everything we do.

"At this current time all three chief constables are preparing for HASC and at Ron Ball’s request West Mercia Police are conducting a review into the specific issues raised in the Independent Police Complaints Commission's latest letter."

It added that no further comments would be made by the chief constables ahead of thew committee meeting.

The hearing comes after the deputy chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), Deborah Glass, said that as MP Andrew Mitchell has chosen not to make a formal complaint, she is powerless to direct misconduct proceedings.

Her findings are in direct conflict with the result of an investigation by West Mercia Police that concluded the Police Federation representatives from West Mercia, West Midlands and Warwickshire forces had no case to answer for misconduct or gross misconduct.

The three officers were accused of deliberately misrepresenting what Mr Mitchell said during a meeting in his Sutton Coldfield constituency office on October 12 last year when they gave interviews immediately afterwards.

Mr Mitchell met the Police Federation representatives after he was accused of calling officers guarding Downing Street "plebs" in a foul-mouthed rant as he was asked to cycle through the main gates on September 19 last year.

The former Tory chief whip insisted he did not use the words attributed to him, and later said he was the victim of a deliberate attempt to "toxify" the Tories and ruin his career.